That artificial wealth can be liquidated in the blink of an eye, and it will be with the first crash in this bubble. Stocks could drop 40% or so in the first two or three months, just like they did in late 1929 and early 2000!

Global debt has grown more than $60 trillion since the last bubble peak.

Every measure of debt and bubble-behavior says that there is the highest chance of a financial crisis and crash!

Yet Janet Yellen thinks we won’t see another financial crisis in our lifetime!

Do you know what she essentially just did?

She essentially just guaranteed that we’ll see a crash. And I don’t say this because of Murphy’s Law or any kind of idiotic superstition. I base this prediction on history…

Every statement of this nature has been issued near the top of a bubble, and every time it’s proved to be the final sign that the bubble is very close to bursting.

There was Irving Fisher’s statement in October 1929: “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”

There was John Maynard Keynes comment in March 1929: “We will not have any more crashes in our time.”

Ben Bernanke told us in 2007 that “the subprime crisis was contained,” just before it roared its ugly head. The Director of Research at the Fed still “painted a benign picture” in his forecast in December 2007 just as the crash and recession was beginning.

This is the human propensity to want nirvana. Economists always think they can end the business cycle – as if that would be a good thing. It wouldn’t be. Instead it would be the end of innovation and growth, as Japan has already proven in the past 27 years.

Humans naturally have more confidence in a boom or bubble the longer they last, when the truth is that such trends only insure that there will be another recession or crash.

Right now, the VIX (measure of volatility) for the stock market is the lowest and most complacent it’s been in recent history. It’s closed below 10 more times than I can remember.

Everything points to the greatest crash of our lifetime… and this statement by our Fed Chair seals that fate.

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Harry S. Dent Jr. studied economics in college in the ’70s, but found it vague and inconclusive. He became so disillusioned by the state of his chosen profession that he turned his back on it. Instead, he threw himself into the burgeoning new science of finance where identifying and studying demographic, technological, consumer and many, many other trends empowered him to forecast economic changes.
Since then, he’s spoken to executives, financial advisors and investors around the world. He’s appeared on “Good Morning America,” PBS, CNBC and CNN/Fox News. He’s been featured in Barron’s, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Success, U.S. News and World Report, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, American Demographics and Omni. He is a regular guest on Fox Business’s “America’s Nightly Scorecard.”
In his latest book, Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage, Harry Dent reveals why the greatest social, economic, and political upheaval since the American Revolution is on our doorstep. Discover how its combined effects could cause stocks to crash as much as 80% beginning just weeks from now…crippling your wealth now and for the rest of your life. Harry arms you with the tools you need to financially prepare and survive as the world we know is turned upside down!
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